The 4 Best Parking Apps for Spain in 2026

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Telpark, from Empark, covers more Spanish municipalities than any other for regulated on-street parking, and also runs its own car parks.

Telpark, from the Empark group, is the natural pick if you mix street parking with multi-storey car parks. It covers regulated street parking in more than 150 cities across Spain and Portugal and gives access to over 300 car parks, where Entrada Express reads your number plate at the barrier and charges your account, with no ticket or pay machine. In Madrid it is one of the apps the city council authorises for the SER zones. If you get a parking ticket, in cities whose local rules allow it you can cancel it from the app by paying a set fee (€4 for a SER ticket in Madrid). Telpark says only some cities add a service fee, of up to 10% including VAT; car-park payments and bookings carry none.

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ElParking combines on-street parking, car parks, EV charging and even tolls in one app, with very good coverage across Spain.

ElParking, owned by Autoclub Mutua Madrileña according to Madrid City Council's register of parking apps, suits drivers who want one app for most car payments. Besides regulated street parking in more than 100 Spanish towns and car-park bookings, it handles the Via-T electronic toll tag and ITV (Spain's MOT) appointments, which is handy if you live here with a Spanish-registered car. The street ticket is linked to your number plate, so there is nothing to leave on the dashboard: wardens check the plate. Where local rules allow, you can end a ticket early and get the unused amount back. Fees vary by town and are listed on each local page; in Miranda de Ebro, for instance, it is 12.4% plus VAT, with a minimum of €0.12 plus VAT.

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Parclick is a car park search engine with advance booking: it compares prices at nearby facilities and the saving over driving in is significant.

Parclick is about booking a car park space before you arrive rather than paying for the street. It lists more than 1,400 car parks across Europe, with coverage in 125 Spanish cities, and advertises discounts of up to 70% off the drive-up rate; you get a booking code to use at the entrance. It is most useful at airports, train stations, ports and events, and it also sells monthly passes. For on-street parking its reach is narrow: it only pays the meter in Madrid, Barcelona and their metropolitan areas, plus Italy. Anywhere else in Spain you will need a second app for the blue zone. It also operates in France, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, which helps on a road trip.